Cooney

64 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Cooney, from 84 m² to 87,401 m² (8.74 ha, 21.6 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 26 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Cooney in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 2 Oct 2018Conditional

  Development consisting of amendment to existing planning application PL17/101: the development will consist of the demolition of existing flat roof utility room and garage, construction of a new single storey extension accommodation a "Granny Flat" and all associated site works.

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 18399

• 20 Mar 2017Conditional

  development consisting of the demolition of an existing flat roof utility room and garage, construction of a new two-storey extension accommodating a "Granny Flat" with garage below (for personal use) and all associated site works

  Permission, 1 home · Sligo County Council, 17101

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

• Natural Heritage Area: Slieveward Bog NHA 001902

Recorded monuments

• SL020-152 Ringfort - rath
  Description

  In undulating pasture, on top of a ridge near the foot of the Ox Mountains. Indicated on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as a hachured semicircular area (diam c. 30m) on the N side of a field boundary. The interior, which is inaccessible due to dense overgrowth, is enclosed by two earthen banks (inner bank: Wth 4m; ext. H 2.3m; outer bank: Wth 1.1m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 0.5m) with an intervening fosse (Wth 5m). The S perimeter of the rath is truncated by an E-W stone field boundary. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-153 Enclosure
  Description

  In undulating pasture, near the foot of the Ox Mountains. The enclosure is levelled and not visible at ground level. Adjacent field boundaries also removed. Indicated on the 1913 OS 6-inch map as a roughly oval enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W) bordered on the W and N by a trackway. Visible as an upstanding pentagonal enclosure in an aerial photograph (ACAP, V 197/160-1) with the SSW, SSE, W and E-facing sides linear and the N side slightly curved. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-184 Cliff-edge fort
  Description

  On a prominent rock outcrop on a NNW-facing slope in rough mountain terrain overlooking the narrow winding Cooney-Glen gap through the Ox Mountains. A relatively flat D-shaped area (dims. c. 16m NNE-SSW; 14.8m WNW-ESE) at the top of a rock outcrop, the straight NNE side of which is defined by a high steep cliff-face. For the remainder of the circuit ENE-NNW the interior is defined by the fragmentary remains of a rough drystone wall (Wth 2.4m, int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m), composed of large rocks and boulders, positioned a short distance below the top of the rock outcrop. At SE, where it is best preserved, the wall is up to three courses high. For much of the remainder of the circuit only its outline is now identifiable, as many of the stones have collapsed down the hill. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo' compiled by Ursula Egan, Elizabeth Byrne, Mary Sleeman with Sheila Ronan and Connie Murphy (Dublin Stationery Office, 2005). Date of upload: 18 January 2008

• SL020-265 Ritual site - holy well
  Description

  In rough pasture, on the E side of a road, on a W-facing slope of the Ox mountains. A well (D 0.6m from roof slab) with a rectangular drystone slab surround (0.8m E-W; 0.8m N-S; T 0.38m) with an opening (Wth 0.3m) at N. Two lintel slabs cover the S half which is partially collapsed. There is no indication that this is a holy well. However, this may be the holy well referred to by O'Rorke (1878, 277) as being a little to the east of the cruckawn, called Tubbermurro, 'where stations used to be performed by the people of the neighbourhood. The well lay in a hollow between two bushes and the devotees made a circuit on their knees round the bushes, attaching to one or other of them, at the close of the exercise, a small strip of scrap of cloth, in token, probably, of willingness to make a more valuable offering if circumstances permitted or required. Either by accident or by design the water supply was cut off and the well dried, about thirty years ago, by persons quarrying close to Tubbermurro.' A footnote states that Tubbermurro signifies 'Mary's Well'. Compiled by: Archaeological Survey Unit, UCC with revisions by Patrick F. O'Donovan and Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 June 2011

Architectural heritage

• House, 1860–1900 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay single-storey thatched house, built c. 1880. Flat-roofed porch to main (west) elevation, with flat-roofed extension north c. 1970. Pitched thatched roof, diamond-pattern scalloping to ridge, painted smooth-rendered chimneystack, painted concrete skews. Painted smooth-rendered walling. Square-headed window openings, painted stone sills, painted timber casements c. 1990. Square-headed door opening in porch, painted timber door c. 1990, cut-stone door step. Stone flag paving to frontage, painted smooth-rendered boundary wall fronting road.

• House, 1890–1910 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey rendered house, built c. 1900. Two-bay single-storey linear extension to east gable. Pitched slate roof, clay ridge tiles, unpainted smooth-rendered corbelled chimneystacks one on ridge of main roof and other on gable of extension, half-round cast-iron gutters on eaves corbel course. Painted roughcast walling. Square-headed window openings, smooth-rendered reveals, painted stone sills, painted two-over-two timber sash windows. Square-headed entrance door opening, painted vertically-sheeted timber door, original brass door furniture. Set back from road, gravelled forecourt between house and road, garden to east, south and west, metal gate, limewashed smooth-rendered boundary walls.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Cooney, about 1 in 5 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low, partly inferred. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_1034 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Cooney with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Sligo.

Name

Cooney · Cónaí

Area

879,438 m² (87.94 ha, 217.31 acres)

Civil parish

Ballysadare, and its townlands

Barony

Leyny

Electoral division

Ballysadare East, the unit of the census

Census 2022

1,387 people lived in 568 households in the Ballysadare East electoral division. 77% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Corhawnagh, Glen, Largan, Stonehall or Carrownageeragh

Placenames

Cooney on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.